Boland to return to England for summit

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May 29, 2014 at 3:15 AM

SANFORD — State Representative Andrea Boland has again been invited to London to attend the annual international summit of the Electric Infrastructure Security Council at the House of Commons in Parliament.

Boland authored the first legislation ever passed to compel electric companies to protect their transmission systems against solar storm threats. She was a speaker at last year’s summit, and will be speaking at another summit in San Francisco.

On the same theme, a film crew from California will be traveling to Maine to interview Boland for the upcoming documentary film, “Racing With the Sun,” on the electric grid’s vulnerability to an extreme solar storm.

“This sort of catastrophic event is essentially not survivable unless we get the available, proven, low-cost protections installed. A man-made electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon can do the same and is a major defense threat,” Boland said.

Coincidentally, the film crew is expected in Sanford during the upcoming Sanford Film Festival. The trailer can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvkR4fBwMlw.

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